South Africa’s leading independent health communications agency joins GLOBALHealthPR

World’s largest independent healthcare communications network strengthens market-leading offering across Asia Pacific, North America, South America, Europe & Africa GLOBALHealthPR®, the largest independent health and science communications agency partnership worldwide, represented exclusively by VIVA! Communications in Australia, today welcomed Johannesburg-based F/NE to its rapidly expanding global network. Founded more than 18 years ago, F/NE has…

Read More

National Education Initiative launched to support youth mental health

Youth mental health

Leading Australian mental health organisations have come together today to announce the launch of a new National Education Initiative transforming the country’s approach to youth care. From August 2018, beyondblue, headspace, and Early Childhood Australia will attempt to provide an end-to-end mental health framework in schools. The National Education Initiative has attracted AUD$45m in funding…

Read More

Difference between physiotherapy and chiropractic

The majority of people will experience some kind of neck pain, back pain or other musculoskeletal injury at some point throughout their lives. Whether this be a sporting injury, as a result of a car accident or simply from general wear and tear of the joints and muscles in our body, most people who seek…

Read More

Australian developed, first-in-class rheumatoid arthritis medication secures green-light for human trials in Brisbane

Australia’s first in-human study of a first-in-class rheumatoid arthritis immunotherapy treatment developed by University of Queensland researchers was launched on November 14, 2017. The Phase 1, double-blind, placebo-controlled study currently underway at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital, will consider both single-ascending dose, and multi-dose protocols to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of subcutaneous (under…

Read More

Gonorrhoea on the rise in Australia

Today, the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney released their Annual Surveillance Report on HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs in Australia.  Statistics contained in the report suggest that, although some of the most serious sexually-transmitted conditions like HIV remain at stable levels compared to previous years, there has been a disproportionate rise in the transmission of…

Read More